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Peony lives with her sister, Magnolia, and her grandfather on a fruit farm outside the city. All Peony really wants is to be a bee. Even though she is only nine, and bees must be ten, Peony already knows all there is to know about being a bee and she is determined to achieve her dream. Life on the farm is a scrabble, but there is enough to eat and a place to sleep, and there is love. Then Peony's mother arrives to take her away from everything she...

An American girl finds a note written by a Chinese girl forced to work in a factory in Beijing.

The history of child labor is illustrated using actual photographs and factual accounts of working conditions in the United States. The story of a fictional girl, Emily, is included to bring the desperate working conditions of these children to life.

A fictionalized account of the Pakistani child who escaped from bondage in a carpet factory and went on to help liberate other children like him before being gunned down at the age of thirteen.